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A smart card, or chip card, is a fingernail-sized integrated circuit that is often embedded in a credit-card-sized plastic sheet. Smart cards are used as identification badges, banking cards, SIM in mobile phones, for key storage, and more.

It seems (to me at least) that is is generally accepted that "electronic identity" and "digital signatures" are a different thing. For example, in the Estonian ID card there are two certificates - one ...

Is there any way of knowing is a credit/debit card has an EMV Chip, by reading the magnetic stripe. This way I could deny the payment via magnetic stripe and ask to the customer to insert the card via ...

How can I get the name of a Key Container that's in a smart card required for initialization of CspParameters?
CspParameters^ cspa = gcnew CspParameters(ProviderType, ProviderName, keyContainerName, ...

The popular claim is that a chip-and-PIN payment card is more secure than a card with magnetic strip because the card data is hidden deep inside the chip and the ATM or POS terminal sends the entered ...

I have a YubiKey NEO which has a lot of amazing capabilities such as OTP, U2F, and PGP smart card for PGP/GPG and even SSH keys. One of the applications I've discovered recently for the device is a ...

I'm looking for some embedded device that will be able to store sensitive data like certificates, private keys, etc. It should comply with following requirements:
Sensitive data, stored in protected ...

I wonder what is the content of a basic banking card having a chip, the kind you use for payment in any store, with a PIN, possible bank authorization, such as Mastercard or Visa or national banking ...

I don't know how well known this system is or maybe there are equal systems better known international. So I'll introduce the related points of the system:
It is a paymentsystem where your wallet is ...

I have read this question and answer but still uncertain how it actually works and how a user could then be hacked. I'm asking because my brother supposedly was hacked and his bank uses exactly this ...

I don't really understand how smart cards work. Do they sign or encrypt themselves (where the computer provides data to it to sign) or do they provide a computer with the private certificate when I ...

I have a smartcard that can be read by websites using a Java applet (see http://www.springcard.com/online/applet_pcsc/). I would like to monitor and is to replay packets going from this java applet to ...

I have a scenario where I want to encrypt the file data on client machine along with smart card authentication. I have followed a link that states that for smart cards, private key never leaves The ...

how can we solve CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey fails with 0x8009200B when adding certificate from smartcard to local user store?
in an enrollment system where users generate smartcard certificate ...

Given that user needs to store a copy of the same private key on each of his devices (in order to decrypt email and other data encrypted with the public key) ... what are some general techniques for ...

I'm designing a system where some combination of hardware and software (lets call it an appliance...) sends asynchronous secure archival to the cloud. By secure, I mean, AES-256 encrypted, with AES ...

I am currently proud user of Feitan ePass2003 with OpenSC, however it is not 100% reliable on Windows, on Linux it's just perfect.
Anyway I started to looking and I have two candidates eToken Pro 64K ...

I just discovered the YubiKey NEO which seems like a pretty awesome device for maintaining security for a variety of different things including computer login, SSH private keys, GPG private keys, and ...

Several systems rely on using UID of smart card for identification/authorization.
For example database stores list of smart card UIDs and corresponding
privileges.
Given that today there exist cards ...

I want to implement card-based authentication for the parking system in a university. Currently all students own a Java Card-based student ID card, if they have not broken or lost it.
Can we create ...

I'm developing a webserver that performs digital signatures of (xml, pdf and office) documents and then validates those signatures.
My idea is: an user puts its SmartCard and through a PIN, he gets ...

I'm developing a webserver that performs digital signatures of (xml, pdf and office) documents and then validates those signatures.
My idea is: an user puts its SmartCard and through a PIN, he gets ...

In relation to an openpgp key on a smartcard:
Besides revoking the key, is there anything else it can be (ab)used for? Can I just ensure it's reliably stored but not worry about it's confidentiality?
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In Belgium we have electronic identity cards (eID) issued by our government. They can be read by a smart card reader. On the card are two certificates, one for signing and one for authentication.
I ...